Re: Bug#155680: [ PROPOSAL ] bump priority of window managers wh
On 07-Aug-2002 Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Colin Walters <walters@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Package: debian-policy
>> Severity: normal
>> Tags: patch
>>
>> The attached patch should speak for itself. This came about because
>> users would often install 'x-window-system' (installs twm) and 'gnome2'
>> (installs metacity) in order to get a GNOME 2 desktop, but twm had a
>> higher alternatives priority than metacity. I think this is wrong,
>> because at least metacity will work with the standard desktop hinting
>> systems...twm basically makes GNOME 2 (and presumably KDE) unusable.
>
> Actually, I would do the contrary, because since it aims at supporting
> kde and gnome, it does not enhance your system but it rather bloats
> it. So instead of being a plus, it is a minus ;-)
> So every wm that does not support kde and gnome should have a higher
> priority ;-)
>
I was trying to be polite in my responses (-:
note twm works just fine with GNOME with 3 major caveats:
1) no panel (and thus no applets)
2) no pager, but since twm lacks virtual desks anyway this is no problem
3) no desktop icons
I use several KDE apps every day under blackbox (which is also not netwm
compliant yet).
There needs to be a distinction made between "I want all of the GNOME/KDE apps
running" and "I want konqueror/koffice/whatever". The second item does not
require any real support from the wm.
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